Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

by leave—I move the amendments:

(1) Clause 2, at the end of the table, add:

(2) At the end of the Bill, add:

Schedule 6 — National gambling regulator

Interactive Gambling Act 2001

1 After Part 1, insert:

Part 1A — National gambling regulator

14A Definitions for this Part

Murphy Report means the report entitled You win some, you lose more, prepared by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs and published in June 2023.

Note: In 2026, a copy of the Murphy Report was available on the website of the Parliament of Australia (https://www.aph.gov.au/).

14B National gambling regulator

Establishment

(1) The Minister must establish a national gambling regulator within 6 months after the commencement of this section.

Powers and functions etc.

(2) The Minister must take all reasonable steps:

(a) to ensure that when the national gambling regulator is established, the regulator has the powers and functions that the Murphy Report recommends for such a regulator; and

(b) to give effect to any other recommendations made by the Murphy Report in relation to a national gambling regulator.

Note: Recommendation 3 of the Murphy Report recommends the establishment of a national online gambling regulator with the sole purpose of reducing harm, and with responsibility for all licencing and regulation. Other recommendations of the report also deal with matters relating to such a regulator.

(3) Within 6 months after the establishment of a national gambling regulator, the Minister must publish a report:

(a) setting out whether the recommendations made by the Murphy Report in relation to a national gambling regulator have been implemented; and

(b) if there are recommendations that have not been implemented—explaining why that is the case.

Publication requirements

(4) A report that the Minister is required to publish under subsection (3) must be:

(a) published on the Department's website before the end of the period mentioned in that subsection; and

(b) tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the report is published on the Department's website.